Welcome: Athanasios Athanassiadis
EMBL’s new Head of Scientific Instrumentation Workshops discusses how building customised experimental setups can enable exciting new research.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2026
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EasyGrid: towards better automation in cryo-electron microscopy
The Papp team at EMBL Grenoble has developed EasyGrid and EasyGrid Control, unique instruments that automate sample preparation and quality control for cryo-electron microscopy, cryo-electron tomography, and X-ray nano-imaging.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2026
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Spearheading innovations to enable new biology
EMBL alumnus and Lennart Philipson Awardee Florent Cipriani reflects on his 30 years at EMBL Grenoble and his multidisciplinary career building technologies that enable new discoveries.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2025
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We are EMBL: Vic Armijo on instrumentation in supporting research
Vic Armijo, a mechatronics engineer at EMBL Grenoble, talks about his dream job, highlighted in EMBL’s exhibition ‘The World of Molecular Biology’.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2023
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Exploring the universe: Roel Wijnaendts
EMBL alumnus Roel Wijnaendts looks back at a long career in academic research and entrepreneurship that has left an indelible mark in the fields of instrumentation and optics.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2023
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The power of cell sorting: understanding heart disease, phase separation, plankton, and more
EMBL researchers use a new cell sorting technology to gain new insights into cellular function in health and disease, as well as for other innovative applications.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2023
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Welcome: Gergely Papp
Together with his team, Gergely Papp pushes the frontiers of technology development in the field of structural biology.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2023
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Biology meets engineering
Physicists, engineers and robotics experts work together in EMBL Hamburg’s Instrumentation Team to design instruments that support structural biology research. The team has finished a transfer robot that facilitates automated handling of protein crystals with care and precision. This will help…
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2023
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New EU-funded Project: Fragment-Screen
EMBL is one of the partners of this project that aims to accelerate drug discovery and development, bringing in expertise from EMBL Grenoble and EMBL-EBI.
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2023
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Two in one: combining MASSIF-1 and CrystalDirect
Researchers and engineers have integrated a CrystalDirect harvester into the fully automated beamline MASSIF-1, a unique combination of structural biology technologies that is now open to external academic users.
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2022
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Teaming up to drive forward time-resolved crystallography
The recent construction of the new ID29 beamline in Grenoble is pioneering a new way of doing experiments in time-resolved crystallography and opening up technology transfer possibilities
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2022
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Cell sorting enters a new dimension
EMBL researchers, in collaboration with BD Biosciences, have demonstrated a new technology that allows rapid image-based sorting of cells. The new technology represents a major upgrade to flow cytometry and has applications in diverse life science fields.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2022
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Analysis and sorting with flow cytometry
A technology around since the ‘60s, flow cytometry has increasing applications. New leadership at EMBL’s flow cytometry facilities is looking to ease use, expand training, and encourage more collaboration.
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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MASSIF-1 beamline in Grenoble supports COVID-19 drug discovery
MASSIF-1, run jointly by EMBL Grenoble and the ESRF, is a beamline for macromolecular crystallography. It is used by the research community to study the 3D structure of proteins, which is important for drug development.
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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A hidden medal
We all like a story about rediscovering treasures, right? Well, that’s just what happened recently at EMBL Grenoble!
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2021
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Structural biology at EMBL: driving technology development
Florent Cipriani, who recently retired as Head of the Instrumentation Team after a long career at EMBL Grenoble, is one of the pioneers of instrumentation development in this field.
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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Mirror, mirror
Engineers at EMBL Hamburg installed specially designed mirrors to reflect and focus X-ray beams onto tiny crystals made of proteins or other biological molecules.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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Upgraded beamlines at EMBL Grenoble unveiled
The beamlines run jointly by EMBL Grenoble and the ESRF reopen today, unveiling significant upgrades that exploit the brand new fourth generation ESRF synchrotron source.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTS2020
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ALPX – smart crystallography
The CrystalDirect® technology, combined with the web-based CRIMS software enable a fully automated, remote-controlled protein-to-structure pipeline.
LAB MATTERS2020
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Facilitating COVID-19 structural biology research
EMBL and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) restart the activities of the Joint Structural Biology Group in Grenoble to support coronavirus-related projects. A new initiative will allow users to be granted access to the High-Throughput Crystallisation (HTX) lab at EMBL and to a…
CONNECTIONS2020
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Remote access to EMBL structural biology pipelines to support research on SARS-CoV-2
The Marquez Team has restarted operations at the High-Throughput Crystallisation (HTX) lab at EMBL Grenoble. The team has developed a fully automated protein-to-structure pipeline, which can be operated remotely and provides virtual access to the facilities.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2020
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Translating blue-sky research into the clinic
What does it take to create a vaccine or improve cancer therapies?
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2018
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Beamline ID23-2 tools up for ESRF upgrade
EMBL instrumentation teams adapting tech to run biological experiments on the synchrotron after its upgrade
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2018
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EMBL and ESRF renew collaboration agreement
EMBL and the European synchrotron ESRF extend their Joint Structural Biology Group
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2017
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Science from ice
Working on scientific instruments has taken EMBL alumnus Simon Sheldon to the ends of the Earth
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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Leading the way in time-resolved crystallography
Establishing a programme of research, development and user services for time-resolved crystallography
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2016
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The man behind the machine
Florent Cipriani talks about his passion for developing beamline instrumentation
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2016
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Crystals in the beamlight
CrystalDirect, developed at EMBL, automates crystal preparation for X-ray analysis
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2016
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Christian Boulin Fellowship
New Christian Boulin Fellowship: 15 awards of up to €1500 for visitors to EMBL’s Core Facilities.
LAB MATTERS2015
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MASSIF step forward
In two months, 2.3 million diffraction images collected on new, fully automated ESRF/EMBL beamline.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2014
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Go with the flow
Flow cytometry: finding needles in haystacks
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2014
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Forty things that make EMBL – Part 1
As the Lab turns 40, staff and alumni share 40 things that make EMBL, EMBL
LAB MATTERS2014
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The future’s bright
Surprising protein from a flu-like virus is 10 000th ESRF structure
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2014
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New interdisciplinary structural biology centre for virus research and technology platforms
On June 26 2009 the joint international Unit for Virus and Host Cell Interactions (Unité Mixte Internationale) was formally established in Grenoble. The unit is run jointly by CNRS, the Grenoble outstation of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the Grenoble University Joseph…
LAB MATTERS2009
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